Equinix CH5
Equinix · Chicago
- IT live
- 24 MW
- Free to lease
- 3.1 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $78
- White space
- 75k ft²
Inventory
87% occupiedPower
24 MWlive
3.1 MW to lease · 20.9 MW in use
White space
75k ft²total
9,750 ft² free · 65k ft² occupied
6,968 m² · 906 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 7.2 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$78/kW·mo
8.1¢ industrial · 10.7¢ after PUE 1.32
- Per MW·year
- $937k
- This site · 24 MW
- $22M/yr
- 30 kW rack
- $2,342/mo
2.5× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $14M/yr less.
ComEd · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2022
- Renewable match
- 80%
- Rack density
- 30 kW
- PUE
- 1.321.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- ComEd.
Cooling
Plant
Hybrid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
30 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.91 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 191k m³/yr at 24 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Equinix 2025 Sustainability Report.
Equinix Cooling as a Service: CDU-fed direct-to-chip loops for high-density AI cabinets, alongside IDEC/CRAH for standard interconnection cages.
Network carriers
8On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
6Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chicago, IL
41.848°, -87.621° · North America
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
CH5 is an Equinix IBX in the Chicago metro. Carrier-neutral IBX with Equinix Fabric, Internet Exchange, and cloud on-ramps. Fleet-average PUE was 1.37 in 2025.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.